TheBear:
A friend barely escaped from East Germany a few years before the Iron Curtain 'fell'.
He told us that when his father came over here for a visit, he was so happy to see his son's authentic German K98 Mauser that he almost went to sleep with it.

Not many people in this country would even know who had owned a specific military Mauser, never mind the miniscule possibility that it would be a family member.